Gandhis didn’t discipline an area chief however opted for “Priyanka Gandhi’s clerk” to contest Amethi, he mentioned.
Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh:
The BJP’s Rae Bareli candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh has accused the Gandhi household of harbouring “hatred” for Rae Bareli-Amethi, and requested why they didn’t discipline an area chief however opted for “Priyanka Gandhi’s clerk” to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Amethi.
Mr Singh, who’s taking over Rahul Gandhi in a high-profile electoral contest in Raebareli, additionally claimed that the Gandhi scion will lose by a much bigger margin than his mom Sonia Gandhi had gained within the 2019 polls.
Sonia Gandhi had crushed Mr Singh in 2019 by over 1,67,000 votes. Nonetheless, this was the bottom margin of victory that Sonia Gandhi has had within the 5 elections, together with a bypoll, that she has fought from the constituency.
“Folks have nice belief in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and beneath his management, the nation in addition to the hard-earned earnings of the folks is secure. Folks of Rae Bareli additionally belief the prime minister,” Mr Singh advised Press Belief of India in an interview.
“So, in such a situation, I do not suppose the Congress candidate will be capable of maintain his floor earlier than the BJP candidate in Rae Bareli,” he mentioned.
Requested about Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tenting in Rae Bareli and campaigning for her brother Rahul, Mr Singh mentioned it may very well be a subject of debate for media individuals who have come from outdoors however her tenting right here was a non-issue for the folks of Rae Bareli.
“In 2022 meeting polls, she stayed right here and requested for votes in each nook and nook, however in all of the meeting seats Priyanka Gandhi camped right here and ran round, about 16,000 votes have been bagged in meeting segments. Is it the identical Priyanka Gandhi?” he mentioned, taking a swipe on the Congress common secretary.
“It may be of significance to you however she holds no significance for folks of Rae Bareli. She will keep right here, it is going to be superb. She made so many guarantees within the 2019 polls and until 2024, go away alone fulfilling these guarantees, she didn’t even stand with the folks of their joyful and unhappy instances,” the BJP chief alleged.
Talking in native dialect, he mentioned, “‘Aaj nikli hain, humka andaza hai kauno gaon bachi na jahan belana liye mahilayein khadi na hui hain, inka swagat kare ke liye’ (I’ve an concept that when she goes out to the villages, ladies would welcome her with batons of their arms).” Mr Singh alleged that the Gandhi household has hatred for Rae Bareli-Amethi and that’s the reason it neither fielded anybody from there within the Lok Sabha polls since 1952 nor despatched any native particular person to Rajya Sabha.
“Rahul Gandhi ji has opened ‘mohabbat ki dukaan’. A lot hatred is crammed within the Gandhi household’s thoughts for Amethi-Rae Bareli. From 1952 until now, Gandhi household by no means gave a Lok Sabha ticket to an individual born to a mom from Rae Bareli,” Mr Singh claimed.
No son of Rae Bareli was despatched to Rajya Sabha and the Gandhi household didn’t make anybody from Rae Bareli even an MP’s consultant.
“MP’s representatives have additionally been introduced from outdoors. As we speak it’s earlier than the folks. May solely an individual introduced from Ludhiana who’s Priyanka Gandhi’s clerk battle the polls from Amethi? Have been there no Congress leaders in Amethi?” he mentioned.
“This hatred that they’ve for Amethi-Rae Bareli, which manifests itself in ‘we won’t give the ticket to an individual from Amethi or Rae Bareli however get an individual from Delhi or Ludhiana’,” the BJP chief mentioned.
They’ve “hatred” for Amethi-Rae Bareli of their minds and this time, Amethi-Rae Bareli will give a befitting reply to them, Singh mentioned.
Whereas Rahul Gandhi is contesting the Lok Sabha election from the Rae Bareli seat, Kishori Lal Sharma, an in depth aide of the Gandhi household, has been fielded from the Amethi seat.
Mr Singh additionally refuted solutions that Rae Bareli was an electoral fortress of the Congress.
“Fortress is one which has four-five MLAs, eight block pramukhs, 10 zila panchayat members from the get together. The Congress doesn’t have a pradhan or block pramukh, or MLA, MLC, or zila panchayat president,” he mentioned. Mr Singh claimed the Congress would not even have an MP and despite the fact that the certificates of MP is with Sonia Gandhi however on the grounds of rules, she just isn’t the MP.
She fought on a Congress ticket however the SP, BSP and Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) faction supported her and she or he fought because the consultant of 4 events, Singh claimed.
“If she would have fought simply as Congress consultant, when you have a look at my vote, you’ll discover that I’d have gained one by lakhs in opposition to simply the Congress candidate Sonia Gandhi,” he argued.
“You possibly can’t think about the deterioration the Congress has suffered right here. In 2019, after I fought the polls, I fought on the scores of 2017 meeting polls. In 2017 the votes of all meeting candidates of Congress was 3,40,000 and I acquired 3,60,000 votes and now when the Congress rating is at 1,40,000 votes in 2022 meeting polls, the Congress has already misplaced 2 lakh votes,” he mentioned.
Rahul Gandhi doesn’t have the assist of the events that Sonia Gandhi did, so there isn’t a doubt that the variety of votes by which Sonia Gandhi gained in 2019, Rahul Gandhi will lose by a much bigger margin than that, Mr Singh mentioned.
He mentioned it shouldn’t be believed that Congress had been unbeatable right here as former prime minister Indira Gandhi was defeated from right here, submit emergency.
“Those that say so have no idea the historical past of Rae Bareli. In Rae Bareli, Indira Gandhi suffered a crushing defeat. Those that say Congress has not misplaced, they need to be advised that Rae Bareli is the land of the individuals who didn’t let the Britishers occupy the world for a 12 months,” he mentioned.
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